WOODBURY — The aunt of an autistic boy who drowned in August in a Monroe Township lake was indicted Thursday by a Gloucester County grand jury on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child.

Felicia M. Tucker, 26, of 12th Avenue was responsible for the boy’s care at the time of his Aug. 1 death and caused him to be an endangered child “by allowing him to leave the residence and drown,” authorities said earlier.

Joshua Moore, 2 1/2, drowned in three feet of water in Victory Lake.

The boy had apparently slipped out of the residence near the lake that his family shared with Tucker.

Tucker called police after she said she found the front door open and the child missing. The child was placed on a respirator for two hours after being pulled from the water before being pronounced dead.

A spokesman for the county prosecutor’s office previously said “there was a significant time period when the child was not supervised.”

The definitions section of the state statute covering endangering the welfare of a child says it applies to the parent or guardian who “inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon such child physical injury by other than accidental means. ...”